The Divine poet: the interpreter of life for all time --
Virgil's world: its meaning and its likeness to our own world --
Virgil's predecessors: or, a study in the evolution of poetry --
Life of Virgil: as the background of his work and as an example of poets --
The Eclogues and the new humanism: their influence on European poetry; the Vergiliana --
The Georgics: life at peace; their influence and their importance to-day --
Concentration on the epic --
The Structure of the Aeneid, as a masterpiece of design and execution --
The Human element, permanent and vital --
The Italo-Roman ideal, created by Virgil and continuing to our own day, as the hope of the world --
Virgil in the medieval and modern world --
Style and diction: the Virgilian hexameter --
Notes --
Bibliography.